Olimpia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia; Una cum Latina omium Versione Carmine Lyrico per Nicolaum Sudorium
by Pindari. Opera
Oxford: Etheatro Sheldoniano, 1697. leather_bound. Contemporary cambridge style binding in full brown calf. Very good. Folio,*6, A4-Ppp4, Qqq-Pppp, Qqqq2-Zzzz2, Aaaaa-Mmmmm. The first English edition of the Greek text edited by Richard West & Robert Welsted. Engraved portrait of Pindar by M. Burghers facing the title page. DIBDIN II, 289. "a beautiful and celebrated edition... on the whole, we... Read More
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The Devine Folly
by Orczy, Baroness
London: Hodder And Stoughton Limited, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Light blue cloth with rondel portrait of a gentleman on white background in clear plastic over wrapper. Very good. 343 pages. 19 x 13 cm. This story is set in London, Venice, Vienna and Paris concerning two English brothers and their connection to a secret society planning the assassination... Read More
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Early London Theatres [In The Fields]
by Ordish, T. Fairman
London: Eliot Stock, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter red morocco and black cloth. Very good. 298 pages. Royal 8vo, 24 x 19 cm. Eighteen black and white illustrations (three are folding). Large-paper copy in the Camden Library Series. A history of Elizabethan theatres (according to the author's criterium, theatres in existence in 1596) established outside the limits of... Read More
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Art Nouveau; Posters & Illustrations from the Glamorous Find de Siecle
by Ormiston, Rosalind & Michael Robinson
New York: Fall River Press, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in matching fine illustrated dust wrapper. 291 pages. 29 x 29 cm. Luxurious presentation, cover has luminescent sparkles on front cover lettering. Profusely illustrated in color on glossy stock and explores the main contributors to this graphic art. Index.
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Velazquez
by Ortiz, Antionio Dominguez, et al.
New York: Abrams, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Velazquez. 296 pages. 4to, 225 illustrations, 210in color. Bibliography. Index. Exhibition catalog in conjunction with Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit.
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Goudy Master of Letters
by Orton, Vrest
Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. salmon cloth. Fine.. Books-on-Books. 101 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. Nine illustrations. With an Introduction by Frederick W. Goudy. The volume designed by Norman W. Forgue has been composed in Goudy's Kennerly types by Hugh Coutu. Limited edition, one of 500.
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River Road to China The Mekong River Expedition 1866-1873
by Osborne, Milton
New York: Liveright, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. 249 pages. Illustrated. Sources. Index.
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Scribes and Sources, Handbook of the Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century
by Osley, A.S.
London: Faber & Faber, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 291 pages. Texts from the Writing-Masters selected, introduced and translated by A.S. Osley. With an account of John de Beauchense by Berthold Wolpe. Twenty-one illustrations, reproductions of decorative motifs and lettering taken from the work of the writing-masters. Selected bibliography. Index.... Read More
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Printing in The Americas
by Oswald, John Clyde
New York: Gregg Publishing, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-library.Orig green cloth. Near fine. 565 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white and color. Index. A general survey of printing covering the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America.
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A Collection Of Fac-Similes Of Scarce And Curious Prints, By The Early Masters Of The Italian, German, And Flemish Schools; Illustrative Of the History Of Engraving, From The Invention Of The Art, By Maso Finiguerra, In The Middle Of The Fifteenth Century, To The End Of The Century, To The End Of The Century Following. With Introductory Remarks, And Catalogue Of The Plates
by Ottley, William Young
London: For the Proprietor and sold by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1828. Hardcover. Later three quarter green morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Fine. Unpaginated. Folio, 39 x 28 cm. 128 mounted India proofs, 13 are in two states, one state printed in silver, Niellos [so called by Ottley]. Ottley, an avid art collector and early British... Read More
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Apuntes Madrilenos; Prologue by Eugenio Lostau Roman
by Ourvantzoff, Miguel (Illustrator)
Madrid: Ignacio Diez Graf, 1964. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. publisher illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. 0urvantzoff, Miguel. 2 text pages. Folio, 35 x 24.5 cm. Cuaderno No. 2 of a series printed from 1964-1868. This copy, a limited edition, Number 8 of 25, hand colored lithographs with tissue guards with each print 22/28 signed by Ourvantzoff. Born... Read More
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L'Amour - L'Art D'Aimer
by Ovide
Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1920. Paperback. Orig. illustrated pochoir wrappers. Very good. Follet, Edith. 215 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Six tipped-in pochoir plates by Edith Follet. Plates vibrant and brilliant, text clean, and unopened. Nice copy of a fragile production, small nicks backstrip head and foot and front cover joint.
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Heroides; Translated by Marcel Prevost * Illustrated by Andre Derain
by Ovide
Paris: Society Des Cent-Une, 1938. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. art vellum wrappers lettered in red. Fine in fine chemise in very good slipcase with some light darkening to spine. Derain, Andre. 311 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 77 of 101 Roman numbered copies on Verge de Maillol of a total edition of 135. This... Read More
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American Modern
by Owen, Michael
NY: Owen Gallery, 2001. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine.. Approx 72 pages. 9 x 9". Host of color plates; provenance: 20th century American painting.
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J.H. Mason 1875-1951 Scholar-Printed; With A Foreword By James Moran
by Owens, L.T.
London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 192 pages. 25 x 18.5 cm. The Ars Typographica Library. Mason worked with Count Kessler, Gordon Craig, Eric Gill etal.
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The Art Museum In America
by Pach, Walter
New York: Pantheon, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Very good. 300 pages. Sixty-two illustrations. Index. An account of the history, achievement and problems of Art Museums in the USA. A final chapter covers Latin-American art and museums.A supplement lists the art museums in the USA.
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Contemporary American Painting
by Pagano, Grace
Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. boards. Very good. 247 pages. 232 illustrations with forty-one in color. 1948 Christmas Greeting from the publisher laid-in.
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Evolution, Revolution, Resolution
by Nam June Paik
Cincinnati: Carl Solway Gallery, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated folding box. Fine. Six text pages. 800 x 595 cm. Text in English and French with interior images of robots. Lacks the eight artist's proofs. A very large heavy tome that will require extra postage.
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Ten Japanese Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts * Boston
by Paine, Jr., Robert T.
New York: Japan Society of New York, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige linen cloth. Backstrip darkened, otherwise Near fine. 72 pp. Ten full-page plates, a few in color. Bibliography. Printed in red and black in a Limited Edition, oneof 1000 copies by Peter Beilenson. Collotype reproductions by Arthur Jaffe. With detailed commentary on each plate by the... Read More
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Diversion
by Unknown painter
Np: Np, Nd. Very good. 23 x 17 cm. color stipple engraving.
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The First Tome Of The Palace of Pleasure, Beautified, Adorned, And Well Furnished With Pleasant Histories And Excellent Novels. Very requisite for Delight and Profit; From the Edition printed by Thomas Marsh, 1575. Edited By Joseph Haslewood
by Painter, William
London: Robert Triphook, 1813. Hardcover. Contemporary half calf, blue cloth decorated in blind in raised floral motif, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. 2 vols. Very good. 492, 700 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm, First modern edition, and first reprint since 1580, and the best edition of this important source book for Shakespeare (amongst others), printed from the... Read More
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The Practical Builder, Or Workman's General Assistant; Shewing the most Approved and Easy Methods for Drawing and Working the Whole or Separate Part of any Building, et al.
by Pain, William
London: I. Taylor, 1778. New and Revised edition. Hardcover. Modern three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Near fine. [5] [7] & unpaginated pages. 27 x 22 cm. With 83 engraved plates printed on quality laid paper. Most images printed recto only. Originally published 1774, this was one of the major 18th century pattern books. It was reprinted... Read More
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Alice Freeman Palmer In Memoriam MDCCCLV-MDCCCCII
by Palmer, Alice Farmer
Np, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine and dark gray boards. Fine in tattered original glassine. 42 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. Engraved frontispiece of Farmer. The first women to become president of a major educational institution, Wellesley College at age 26. In the early 1890's she became the first president of the new University of Chicago.... Read More
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Opere D'Intaglio Del Cav. Raffaello Morghen
by Palmerini, Niccolo
Florence: Niccolo Pagni F.E. Comp, 1824. Third edition. Paperback. Stiff blue wrappers, title hand lettered. Near fine. Morghen, Raffaello. 154 pages. 8vo, 21 x 13 cm. "One of the most celebrated engravers of modern times.............The whole of his works have been fully described by his scholar, Palmerini (in this work), to whom it was his custom to give... Read More
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Agent's Sample Book
by New Haven. E.H. Pardee
New Haven: E. H. Pardee, 1880. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth decorated in blind with front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. 15.5 x 10 cm. More than 25 leaves with over 70 mounted, mostly chromolithographs, embossed color card samples with prices written in pencil. The images carry the Victorian sentimentality of the time; with inscriptions -- "Hope sustain... Read More
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